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[ദേവാനാം അസുരഃ @Siradhvaja]

This account reps Neo-Hellenism and the return of Neoplatonic polytheism:

[𝚿 ࿗॥Trasádasyu॥࿘ 𝚿 𑖌𑖼 Caṇḍīcaraṇaparāyaṇa 𓃓 @pArAsharyAyaNa]

Pāśupata vrata has its roots in the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa,
and in the «anaḍudvrata» (the vow of the ox) of the Atharvavedic Paippalāda Saṃhitā.

Pāśupatasūtra mirrors the Paippalāda Śruti in stating that Indra was the first to observe the vow.

[Harsh Gupta Madhusudan @harshmadhusudan]

Our public sphere is digital, even for the so-called mofussil towns. And it is completely controlled by US Big Tech, which as far as other countries go, is an extension of the US govt or state. The American people maybe by and large nice, the US constitution maybe great but the US explicitly sees India as a long-term threat only after China. Their serving officials have said as much.

It boggles the mind then that we have allowed our society, our politics, our very emotions to be manipulated by foreign addictive algorithms. Our economies to be hollowed out by others' scale, though it is still not late. The least we can do immediately is what many countries around the world have done: banning social media platforms for under-16 kids.

Then we need to have a calm discussion. When TikTok was banned, Insta created reels etc and the content creators could monetise their work there. If Insta gets banned, an Indian platform will rise. It absolutely will. But without a market, nobody will easily put up money. This is both an economics and a national security argument.

In a slightly different but related context of AI, I was reading about CXMT: the great Chinese HBM/DRAM company which came out of seemingly nowhere. But it did not come out of nowhere. The Chinese government gave it billions. Then more crucially it gave it a guaranteed market by getting Chinese Big Tech (which itself was created by partially blocking US Big Tech) route orders to CXMT.

Then they bought a bankrupt German company in the field and got all the IP, even if slightly dated. Then they hired like crazy. No individual step was rocket science. But collectively it was nothing but magic. The Chinese have the scale and they have ruthlessly exploited it. Kudos to them. Like the Americans did against the British or Germans earlier, or later against the Japanese.

Let us take ourselves seriously for a change. We are the largest polity on Earth. Our ancestors created these invisible bonds of fraternity, beautifully if imperfectly over millennia, so that today we can even think of boasting of such latent scale. But no ship is worth even its mast if it is only in its harbour. It is time for us to sail.

[Satish Verma @satoverma]

Left has always used genuine grievances of a specific group of people to organise movements with the ultimate objective of grabbing power. To them, it’s a way to bring the useful idiots or the foot soldiers into the movement who seldom understand how the Left operates.

[Anil Suri @anilksuri]

He was the first to analyse and report that brass bowls from the South Indian Megalithic were high-tin beta bronzes. Despite the fact that he was not a metallurgist.

[ദേവാനാം അസുരഃ @Siradhvaja]

Another interesting note....
Puruṣasūkta analogue in medieval Russian apocrypha?

[VatsRohit @KesariDhwaj]

The reason why most Sikhs vote for Congress in spite of 1984 and detest BJP is pretty simple.

BJP is seen as a Hindu political party which wants to implement Hindu Rashtra.

To RSS/BJP Sikhism might be a 'panth' under Hinduism but for many Sikhs, Sikhism is a separate religion which was made by the Gurus after rejecting Hinduism and its practices.

They consider all this bhaichara from RSS/BJP as surrepticious attempts to dilute the Sikh identity.

While RSS and BJP never stop mentioning that Sikhs and Hindus are one people, to many in the Sikh community this is an attempt to bring Sikhism under the fold of Hinduism.

That Sikhism is a separate religion is not a view held only by Khalistanis. In fact, you'll see the most ardent pro-India Sikhs also holding this view.

An extension of this thought process are acts like asking Granthis not to sing those portions of Gurbani which have reference to Krishna or Ram or any form of Hindu gods and godesses. That's why Shiv Sena and RSS members are targeted in Punjab. And SGPC appointment holders consider Sikhism to be more close to Islam than Hinduism.

[Yamaxšaytah 🟩⬜️⬛️ @Saatvata]

Zoroastrian equivalent of Abū Lahab. IYKYK

[Sagorika @sagorika_s]

In Delhi, SGPC gurudwaras are showing Satluj. Just heard. Communities are being handed over the pirated copy. Anyone else see this?

[Aadi🏹 ☀️🐚 @Aadii009]

They have built one pathhar sahib too . Apparently some demon threw a pathar upon Guru Nanak in Leh .

That site is Patthar sahib.😭

[Pandara Road Cartel @raisinacipher]

A BUS COLLIDED WITH A TRAIN SO THEY BUILT A GURUDWARA TO COMMEMORATE THEM AS SHAHEEDS CALLED TAKKAR SAHIB
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Curwen Ares Rolinson @huntersrolinson]

@Trierarch81 hot take:

Rome stopped being Rome when it stopped being pagan and became Christian officially and with active suppression of ... well, 'Romanism'

[morty @findmorty]

banger

[ദേവാനാം അസുരഃ @Siradhvaja]

Well yeah, it is Vedavirodha to Vedāntins because it is understood be contradictory to their sectarian exegesis of the scripture 🙂and hence, within their vision, anti-Vedic.

That said, I would contest this from a non-sectarian perspective:

[arjun @arjunoham]

@longhandnotes @suhasm @svat The Bhagavadgītā

[John Michael Greer @JMGreerWriter]

Dowsing works; nobody knows how or why, but it works. It plays a much wider role in contemporary life than most people realize.

To cite only one example, when archeologists in Britain say that they found this or that subsurface feature by “probing with metal rods,” a line you’ll read in the journals quite often, that doesn’t mean somebody was hammering metal rods into the ground. It means this:

[Aadi🏹 ☀️🐚 @Aadii009]

Tried to make their pose as per this description.

[utkarsh @gorakhvacha]

@Aadii009 yogi modi karne wale bina gotr k atheist jaldi jaldi hindu dharam se bahishkrit hokar musalman bane taki phir hamara agla jainoside sampann kara sake aur ham uska bhi dosh phir hindutva ko de sake